(Oil’s Well That Ends Well)
A gusher from 1907
Words by F. L. Hill
Music by A. W. Scheu
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- United States is all a flame
They say that “feller” is to blame
Or, is that just the thing to say
When he has all the fines to pay
I’m sure I know how you’d finance
If you could get “next” to the chance
It’s just as plain as A. B. C.
You’d do the same as “Johnny D.”
Chorus
Oil, oil, oil has got us in its toil
But Teddy says the trusts have got to go
And when this man behind
Gets a thing in his mind
You can bet your bottom dollar ’twill be so
- Now “Rockefeller” is no fool
For long ago he went to school
And learned to read and write and spell
And some words looked like O-I-L
S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D
Another word he liked to see
They looked so good to “Johnny D.”
He added on the Come-“pay”-ny - Some States appear to hold their breath
While others aim to cause the death
Of this “Oil wagon” called a trust
Which surely will be hard to bust
And if it busts I think they’ll find
The same old thing bob up behind
Yes surely we are in the toil
Of everlasting Standard Oil - But who can tell now if you please
Just how much oil twill take to grease
The track that causes things to slide
Around the bend or to the side?
We know there’s “fingers in the pie”
This is a truth we can’t deny
There’s others who will share the spoil
Of what is called the Standard Oil
(more verses on the sheet music)